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I'm not an expert on the ins and outs of what's been occurring, but speaking from that somewhat outside perspective, this entire conundrum seems farcical.
I understand that there may be annoyance about why such a popular mod as TSLRCM needed to be removed over something seemingly so minor. Indeed, since I think rules against porting are something of an antiquated defense against anti-modder thinking which has by-and-large passed with the years (certainly so for games so old as these), I might even be counted among those annoyed that this rule is being applied at all. Yet the rule against porting is still just that: a rule. Unless one wishes to forego all modding conventions and standards of behavior, it should be followed unless and until it's removed; no modder here would appreciate me uploading their mods elsewhere without permission or authorial attribution, and it's the rules and standards of the community which offer such protections. You take the good with the bad.
But the complete lack of dialogue and progress since the removal occurred is both striking and, in my view, unjustifiable. Although the mod is available on ModDB and the Workshop, not all users are aware of the former archive and not all users have access to (or the desire to use) the latter. Moreover, there's been incredible confusion among the broader community about whether or not the new version will be just the audio fix or include other minor changes which might need to be tested for. I've had to put the testing of the new mod builds off for months in the hopes that the new version would be released in time for testing--but it hasn't been. No word, no progress, no indication of anything about the new version. And, worse still, no indication of whether this is a matter of intransigence or simple slow progress. People rely on TSLRCM, and I, at least, rely on transparency to do the work which I do, to know if I have to account for mod updates.
This fix, by all rights, should be minor. The work of splicing necessary audio, so far as I've seen, has already been done. That leads me to the conclusion that intransigence is the problem, not slow work. To which I must ask: why? If the concern is one of porting, a real stance that it should be allowed, then a discussion on the matter should have begun over a month ago. But if it's simple bull-headedness over TSLRCM itself having the rules enforced against it, I can't see a way to conscience such a stance. I would love to have it explained to me.

Throughout the game, there are cutscenes of the player sleeping and having Force visions to further the plot. This mod fixes two things about those scenes that bothered me.
First, the first of these scenes is supposed to happen in the party's apartment on Taris, but is quite clearly set on the Ebon Hawk like all the other scenes. I've edited the area used for the visions to put in a copy of the apartment to make the location consistent.
Second, the scenes show the player wearing whatever item they happened to have equipped when the scene started. So the player would routinely sleep in their clothing, even armor. I've edited the cutscene scripts to remove the player's equipment for the duration of the vision.

This mod replaces the Jedi robes worn by the player and many NPCs with a more iconic, cloaked one based on a model from K2. I've made some fixes to the model and made new textures both to improve the quality and fit into the game more smoothly.
There are two texture options: 100% Brown or Brown-Red-Blue. The Brown-Red-Blue textures maintain the color scheme of the K1 Jedi Robes. The 100% Brown textures look more like K2 textures, with different (brown) designs for the Jedi robes instead of different colors. Dark Jedi robes, of course, are always black.
Both styles come with or without gloves for your player character. If you choose a gloveless option, your hands will be bare and match your usual skin tone. NPCs will still wear gloves.
I've included most of these assets as a mod resource that can be found here.

This mod makes some alterations to the arena in the Taris Upper City cantina. The primary change is the removal of the original low quality crowd sprites. In the vanilla game these are VFX nodes. It appears that Bioware's original intention was for these to be animated, but that was likely disabled due to performance issues on the Xbox. Subsequently, most of the sprites are lacking arms. Another issue is the scaling. The sprites are completely out of scale with the rest of the game world, appearing to be about half the height of an average human. This was possibly an attempt to skew the perspective, an attempt to make the arena look bigger than it actually is. The original sprites have been completely removed in favour of better quality crowd sprites ported from The Old Republic. Additionally, the bays housing the crowd have been resized in order to fit proper human-sized figures. To comply with recent local ordinance changes, transparisteel safety screens have been fitted for the crowd’s protection. Other minor changes include some texture swaps on the roof section and a dummy door model to hide some unsightly fog on the original.
Additionally, players participating in duels should now correctly face their opponent, and give an alignment-specific emote when they are announced. Opponents will now politely wait until their name is announced before giving their little fist pump. After some complaints by their union about a lack of proper medical services, defeated opponents are now healed back to full health post-match rather than being left to limp around. The view screens in the cantina have been upgraded to have a dynamic display of the current arena rankings. These will change as the player progresses up the ranks. The placeable computer screens have all had their positions adjusted so that they properly contact the walls they are supposed to be mounted to, and to align them with one another. Ajuur the Hutt’s dialogue has also had some minor surgery performed on it, to better deal with player and party positioning. Carth should now properly face Ajuur and the player during his relevant interjections, and won't be replying from across the room.
N.B. - Because alterations are made to the module's GIT file, the mod requires a save before entering the Upper City cantina for the first time. It is thus best suited for a new game. If you load a save after having entered, none of the screens will line up properly with the computer placeables.
Known Issues:
The initial v1.0 of the mod used a version of TSLPatcher with a bug that caused it to incorrectly repack the MOD file, losing some scripts. For anyone that installed that version, please download and install the additional patch. It is safe to use this patch even if you installed a later version over the top, as it only reinstates the missing vanilla scripts.
During the beginning of a duel you may briefly see the PC in a frozen pose. I have not been able to figure out the cause, but it appears to be a direct consequence of the measures taken to force the proper facing.
If you initiate a conversation with Ajuur while the party is standing in the corner with the medpac bin, you will likely see them jump out of frame as they are moved to their now scripted fixed positions directly in front of the Hutt. That's an unfortunate consequence of the way it was handled, but the camera angle should mask the transition from pretty much anywhere else.
While opponents are now healed after a match, I forgot to edit the script for the initial cutscene match between Duncan and Gerlon, so Duncan won't be healed until the start of his match against the player. I'll fix that in a future update.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to @bead-v for MDLEdit
Thanks to @ndix UR for TGA2TPC
Special thanks to @JCarter426 for helping with some scripting, particularly extended troubleshooting of the Ajuur party positioning script
Thanks to @Salk for alerting me to the TSLPatcher problem with v1.0
Thanks to @A Future Pilot for pointing me to the fixed version of TSLPatcher
Some screenshots feature @Sithspecter's High Quality Blasters
The video features @ndix UR's KOTOR High Resolution Menus
Crowd and glass textures ported from The Old Republic MMO

This mod adds a new fat commoner male model, ported from The Old Republic MMO. It replaces the generic appearance used by Handon Guld on Dantooine, who, judging by the dialogue he is involved with, was originally intended to be an overweight character.
Additionally, there are several other changes that have been made to the Calder Nettic murder investigation sequence:
Handon now sports an injured idle animation to conform to dialogue mentioning he is holding his injured side
Two erroneous fades to black in penultimate dialogue lines have been removed
When the player solely accuses either Handon or Rickard, the other will now run off after being given permission to leave rather than standing around
Master Bolook has had his appearance changed to a green Twi’lek to match one of Rickard’s lines of dialogue referring to him as a “green-skinned nerfherder” (apparently he was green in the original Xbox version, but was changed to orange for the PC version)
N.B. - You will need to load a save prior to entering the Dantooine Grove for the first time in order for this mod to take full effect.
Acknowledgements:
This mod was inspired by Merkuri22's episode of her "KOTOR 1 Experience" series dealing with this quest
Very special thanks to @JCarter426 for writing the custom scripts and doing lots of troubleshooting to get them working correctly
Thanks to @bead-v for KOTORMax and MDLEdit
Thanks to @ndix UR for TGA2TPC and normal map normalizer tool
Original models and textures ported from The Old Republic MMO
Thanks to zaramot on the Xentax forums for the TOR GR2 Max import script

I haven't been doing much modding over the last couple weeks because I've been working on this instead:
It's a fully-functional user-defined language for Notepad++. It has syntax highlighting and auto-completion based on all the terms found in nwscript.nss. I've done all my coding over the last ten years with Notepad - the regular one - with none of these features, so I think it's pretty cool to have now.
(The code I typed is garbage, though. I was just putting stuff down to show a few of the features and I forgot to assign the command to an object.)

Security spikes are disposable items that give the player a temporary boost to their Security skill when activated, helping them pick more difficult locks. At least, that's how it's supposed to be. That's how they work on the Xbox version, and in KOTOR 2, but security spikes don't actually do anything at all on the PC version of KOTOR 1.
The cause seems to be some sort of bug in the GUI that prevents security spikes from ever appearing in their intended slot. So when interacting with a door, there isn't an option to scroll from the Security skill to security spikes, as there is in KOTOR 2. The GUI was changed for the port from Xbox to PC, and security spikes probably got left out due to oversight. I couldn't find any way to resolve the issue, though, so I came up with two alternative options.
Option A
Option A replicates the security spikes' intended function as best as I could manage. They’ve been given an activate item property and appear in the non-medical item slot (along with stimulants and shields).
When a character activates a security spike, they receive a temporary boost to their Security skill and proceed to unlock the nearest door or container. Apart from the boost, the skill check for the lock is the same as usual: 1d20 + Security vs. the lock’s DC. Security spikes are single-use and discarded whether the character succeeds in picking the lock or not; however, they are not used up if the attempt was impossible – if there wasn’t anything in range or the lock required a special keycard, for example. Regular security tunnelers grant a +5 bonus and security spike tunnelers grant a +10 bonus.
Option B
Option B removes security spikes from the game, replacing them with credits. The value is equivalent to the most you could get from selling the original security spike items to a merchant. Mission’s ability to create security spikes on the Ebon Hawk is removed.

Good afternoon. I worked very long on these textures. I can call them one of the best of my works. The archive contains 2 textures: the texture of the woman's form and the shape of the man. The resolution of the textures is 2048X2048. This resolution allows you to carefully draw each piece of equipment. Attention was paid to everything: rivets, buckles, shadows, cloth, chevrons. Enjoy.

Short story: Repeating blasters were originally intended to give the user an additional attack in every round of combat (like twin-blade melee weapons do). This mod implements that effect. I.e. a character without force speed would normally do 1 attack when using a repeater, 2 when using rapid shot as well. Now, 2 attacks will be done when using the default attack and 3 when using rapid shot.
Long story: After investigating in 2015 what could be the reason for repeaters costing more (500 vs 300) credits while having a worse crit range (5% vs 10%) than blaster rifles while having no advantage whatsoever, I found out that repeaters were originally intended to give the user an additional attack per round, sort of making them the double-blades of the blasters. Sadly, this was never implemented, as one internal item comment even comments on. I didn't know enough about scripting back then and quickly lost interest in fixing this. But now, more than 3 years later, it's finally fixed via scripting, placing the required code in the k_ai_master script.
Known issues: Due to hardcoded mechanics, power blast can never do more than 1 attack, and sniper shot never more than 2. Normal attack appears to usually only do 2, but may rarely do 3 when using force speed as well. Sadly, these cannot be changed without access to the game code.
Compatible with any mod that does not edit the k_ai_master.ncs file, and incompatible with any that does. (However, it is easy for any modder to add the compatibility, source is included.)

Some more robe progress:
There are ten texture variants for the K2 version. Half are done, and the other half is on the way. I've finished the basic recreation of them all, but that was only the first step. A lot of them need additional fine-tuning. For example, the Dark Jedi Knight robe was misaligned; part of the robe was shifted up a few pixels, compared to the other variants. I also thought the cloaks on a few textures looked washed out, so I fiddled with the levels to give them better contrast. But the biggest changes I've had to make were for Jolee's robe because the original just did not look like Jolee at all.
Fortunately, the rest don't have to be replaced almost from scratch like that one. Jolee's robe is the only unique robe that uses that model rather than the master robe model. Just little changes - the fine tuning - are needed for the final five textures. The only thing slowing me down is my motivation. That's the sort of thing I can spend forever fussing over, and in fact I'm still not totally happy with the Jolee texture and might go back to it later. Anyway, the K2 version is coming... eventually.

Start as you mean to go on. For KOTOR, that apparently means leave lots of holes in your level geometry. This mod plugs some gaps in the hull of the Endar Spire, and fixes a few UV issues.
Fixes:
Plugs two strips that run along either side of the dead-end corridor on the Command Deck that are open to space. These are hard to see, but noticeable just above the windows in this section. Additionally, an alteration to the model's hierarchy was made so that the light strips now correctly animate.
Removes an extraneous strip of mesh that was causing z-fighting issues (i.e. flickering) in the central corridor where the Jedi vs Sith fight occurs.
Plugs two gaps in the room just before the escape pods in the Starboard Section. Additionally adjusts the lightmap UVs to remove a light bloom that occurred during baking due to the offset geometry.
Fills some holes in the forked section of corridor in the Starboard Section just before the escape pod room. Also fixes some flipped UVs causing inverted wall trim textures in this area.
Corrects some misaligned polys in an inset panel in the end wall of the escape pod room in the Starboard Section. Also adjusts the lightmap UVs of said polys to correct their baked lighting.
Fixes some UVs causing inverted wall panel textures in a couple of corridor sections on both the Command Deck and Starboard Section.
Installation:
Simply copy the model files across to your Override folder
Acknowledgements:
Thanks to @JCarter426 for initially hunting down these holes and pointing them out to me
Thanks to @ebmar for finding a number of additional issues
Thanks to @bead-v for KOTORMax and MDLEdit

There are so-called "lite" alien models that are of lesser quality than most other models in the game. These include the Quarren and Gran species. Both aliens feature more prominently in the sequel and their models were given an overhaul. This mod ports the K2 versions of the models back to K1, improving the quality of models and creating a more consistent aesthetic.

This mod adds proper ears to male Twi'lek heads in KOTOR I.
In the vanilla game, male Twi'lek heads had no geometry for ears, leaving them as flat textures on the head. For every other head in the game that has ears, those ears stick out. After noticing this inconsistency, I decided to take a shot at fixing it. This mod makes an additional adjustment by fixing the eyelid origins, so that they no longer clip through the face when blinking.
It may be a small-scale change, but given the frequency of Twi'lek NPCs, it's a nice visual improvement that keeps consistency with other character models in the game.
There's also a KOTOR II version available here.
Installation & Uninstallation
To install this mod, drag the files located in "Override" to the Override folder located in your game's directory. If prompted, select replace, although you might want to back up any pre-existing duplicates beforehand.
To uninstall this mod, delete the files from the Override folder located in your game's directory. There's a list of files included in the download's readme.txt for reference.
Compatibility & Known Issues
This mod should be compatible with any other mod as long as they don't override the same files. Any Twi'lek male retexture mods should also work fine with this installed.
Known issues: None as of this version's release.
Credits
Fred Tetra, Kotor Tool
bead-v, MDLedit
Fair Strides, MDLOps
Symmetric, Purifier, & ndix UR; KotOR Blender
Blender Foundation, Blender
Major thanks to the KOTOR community for the passion & dedication that keeps these games alive.
Disclaimer
This mod is not supported by LucasArts, BioWare, or Obsidian Entertainment. It is for personal usage only & intends no copyright infringement.
Contact me on DeadlyStream or via Discord (listed on my DS profile) if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or the like.
If you want to use this mod as a part of an external work, please reach out to me & ask for my permission first. If I give the go-ahead, just make sure to give the proper crediting.

This mod replaces K1's vanilla static swoop monitor with TSL ported swoop monitor with added animations on its screen.
# Background #
Lately I have been attempting few porting stuffs between TSL to K1 and then wondered "can PLC_xx be ported?" and the answer is here.
# About this Mod #
Inside this mod are:
One TSL ported swoop monitor model: plc_swscreen MDL/MDX
One TSL ported swoop monitor texture in TPC format: TSL_SwpMntr
One custom made 11 frames-animated swoop screen in TPC format: AnmtdSwpScrn
# Final Remarks #
This attempt were much inspired by Sith Holocron's "Swoop Monitors Replacement Pack" as without the said mod, it wouldn't go anywhere than just a mere idea. I learned a lot from his texture and TXI's setup so- lots of credits pretty much addressed to SH and his work!
Critiques, comments, suggestions, questions and any feedbacks for the next update are very much appreciated- just PM me or write a public message on my feed. And thank you! for downloading, and playing this mod.
Hope you enjoy the mod as much as I do!
Installation: Copy-Paste all the included files to the 'Override' folder. Overwrite when prompted.
Uninstallation: Remove the said files from the 'Override' folder.
Redistribution: You can redistribute this mod or re-release it on any website; you don't have to ask for permission, but I do appreciate all the kind intention. Also, if you are planning to use the assets from this mod to a mod you will be developing, don't forget to give credits to BioWare, Obsidian Entertainment, and LucasArts as inside this mode are their base assets. Anyways, credit to me is always a welcome, welcome.
Credits:
Fred Tetra for the 'amazing' KotOR Tool
Chuck Chargin Jr./ndix UR for MDLOps
bead-v for MDLedit
ndix UR for tga2tpc
Elwood288 for without his porting discussion I'd have no idea of what I'm doing
Sith Holocron for his awesome tons-of-frames' "Swoop Monitors Replacement Pack" which have been the guidance on setting-up the animation et all
DeadlyStream for updating the porting policy
DarthParametric, Dark Hope, VarsityPuppet, redrob41, Sithspecter, DeadMan, JCarter426, Kexikus and Salk for being inspirational
BioWare, Obsidian Entertainment and LucasArts for K1 and TSL
All streamers on DeadlyStream
All modders either active or inactive
DeadlyStream for a place to hangout and to discuss
-eb

The archive contains 2 textures: the texture of the woman's form and the shape of the man. The resolution of the textures is 2048X2048. This resolution allows you to carefully draw each piece of equipment. Attention was paid to everything: rivets, buckles, shadows, cloth, chevrons. Enjoy.

What I Did For The Community Last Year
Have you wondered . . . what does Sith Holocron do as an administrator on this site? Wonder no longer!
I’ve summed up what I’ve done this year so you can have an overview. Keep in mind some entries might just list a start date for an ongoing event – or it might take up from an event that took place from last year. There are also other things that I can’t freely talk about such as advice, staff chats, and secret projects that I am not at liberty to discuss.
Do you have some time? You’re going to need some to read through all of this as I've working on this document for most of the year. I originally was going to release this on New Year's Eve but I thought to myself: Why Wait?
Please note that some of these entries may come off like I have a chip on my shoulder. That may or may not be a figment of your imagination.
January 02, 2017
Received voice lines from voice actor for the characters I1-02 (in M4-78 Enhancement Project.) Paid for actor’s services. (Yeah, some of those lines in the latest version of M4-78 EP that I paid actual real world money for. You know, the mod that isn't on this site?)
Provided splicing for Leilukin's "Handmaiden and Female Exile - Disciple and Male Exile Romance" mod.
January 04, 2017
Arranged for voice actor re-record lines to Zbyl’s specifications.
January 05, 2017 (and beyond)
Continuing the saga from last year, dealing with myriad issues with having the end credit trailers for both the TSLRCM and the M4-78 Enhancement Project redone. Paid for the project out of my funds.
January 11, 2017
Provided splicing for Leilukin's "Darth Sion and Male Exile Mod"
January 14, 2017
Taking a cue from Varsity Puppet’s replacement legal screens, created a new legal screen in TGA format for the M4-78 Enhancement Project.
January 20, 2017
Posted "Blog #43 - Miguel Ferrer passes away"
January 27, 2017
Posted "Blog #44 - RIP John Hurt"
January 31, 2017
Continued to moderate between Hassat Hunter and Ndix UR on fixing one of the droid’s eye-lights. (M4-78 EP related)
February 3, 2017
Received more lines from the voice actor for CS-36 (in M4-78 Enhancement Project) – again, I hired this guy.
February 5, 2017 (an ongoing debate)
Indicated the read-me for M4-78 Enhancement Project needed to emphasize that the intentional vagueness of the journal entries was supposed to represent “old school” RPG playing. (IMHO: If HH wants to continue to claim that’s intentional, he should claim so in the read-me file.)
February 7, 2017
Created new video to (eventually) announce that the updated M4-78 Enhancement Project is available for download. Utilized lines from voice-actor for CS-36 specifically for this announcement. (Still waiting on this release.)
Posted "Blog #45 - Hangar versus Hanger" as part of my on-going grammar series.
February 14, 2017
Posted "Blog #46 - I Present a SWTOR Question!"
February 15, 2017
Provided new splicing for Leilukin's "Atton Rand and Male Exile Romance"
February 19, 2017
Released “TSL Animated Galaxy Map Texture in Canon Positions” mod.
Posted "Blog #47 - Preparing for the Stoney Chapter soon" . . . for use in the M4-78 Documentary.
February 20, 2017
Corrected “TSL Animated Galaxy Map Texture in Canon Positions” mod
February 22, 2017
Sent questions from the general public to Stoney regarding his version of M4-78 for the documentary I’ve been doing with Xuul.
February 23, 2017
Released “KOTOR1 "Canon" Animated Galaxy Map” mod
March 1, 2017
Posted "Blog #48 - Design my next computer"
March 16, 2017
Provided new splicing for Leilukin's "Handmaiden and Female Exile - Disciple and Male Exile Romance" mod.
Posted "Blog #49 - I need a WAV file from MOTS"
March 24, 2017
Collaborated with bead-v on the “TSL Galaxy Map Fix Pack” mod
March 31, 2017
Posted "Blog #50 - Meet ‘Holocron’" – finally officially ending my drought without a functioning home computer by posting the process of putting it together.
April 3, 2017
Updated “KOTOR1 "Canon" Animated Galaxy Map” mod
April 4, 2017
Posted "Blog #51 - Who wants to make HD versions of the trailers?" – inspired by folks complaining on Reddit about the old low resolution trailers for KOTOR1 and 2, I decided to see if I could inspire the community to remedy that need.
April 14, 2017
Collaborated with Kexikus on the “K1 Galaxy Map Fix Pack” mod
April 19, 2017
Posted "Blog #52 - Stormtrooper Tutorial" – modernized and amended an old tutorial from another site.
May 19th, 2017
Posted "Blog #53 - Help me name my next SWTOR Character”
June 8, 2017
Posted "Blog #54 - Possible Expansion to K1 Portrait Pack?”
Jun 25, 2017
After working on it since April, I finally received some additional sound files from the voice actress for the next version of M4-78 EP that Zbyl2 and Hassat Hunter requested. Of this effort, I received no thanks from either of the aforementioned persons.
June 28, 2017
Posted " Blog #55 - Retro Action Figure Space Station”
July 1, 2017
Posted " Blog #56 - The K1 and TSL Heads”
July 2, 2017
Posted “Blog #57 - The Steam Workshop”
July 5, 2017
Posted “Blog #58 - Let's Plays”
July 18, 2017
Released “Animated Cantina Sign for KotOR 1” to public.
July 25, 2017
Attempted a behind the scenes initiative to have modders and/or machinima makers remake some - if not all - of the KotOR1 pre-rendered movies for the game.
July and August
Offered sound files of KOTOR voice actors for machinima directors to use in the future videos.
Dealt with questions that came up from the M4-78 EP Beta Team. (Yes, there was actually a beta team!)
August 1, 2017
Posted “Blog #59 - "Name that Gun" Challenge!”
Deleted pictures from Screen of the Day section by request of the original poster.
August 2, 2017
Released “Animated Manaan Cantina Sign for KotOR 1” to public.
August 12, 2017
Posted “Blog #61 - "I Need a tutorial for a G0-To voice filter” both on Deadly Stream and on the KOTOR subreddit.
August 13, 2017
Posted “Blog #62 - "Mod Ideas that Never Came to Pass”
September 2, 2017
Posted “Blog #63 - "Got an interesting message on Facebook Messenger”
September 3, 2017
Posted “Blog #64 - "Not Star Wars Related”
Attempted (and failed) to resolve a conflict between two mod makers.
September 14, 2017
Posted “Blog #65 - " A Celebration of Life Day!
A blog seeking participation for a Holiday themed video.
September 20, 2017
N-DReW-25 requested changing the gender in the “601saedhe045” line in KOTOR2. First released to him and then to general public on October 2nd.
September 23, 2017
Posted “Blog #66 - "New Landing and Take Off Videos for M4-78?”
A blog requesting folks to redo the Landing/Takeoff videos using Quanon’s skyboxes from Stoney’s original M4-78. Superseded shortly afterwards by my thread in the Request section here. (include link)
October 1, 2017
Posted “Blog #67 - "Font Discussion”
A blog discussing typefaces for the Star Wars games and the Star Wars universe in general.
October 2, 2017
LucyTheAlien requested adding a filter to Mandalore’s “503xaart024” line in KOTOR2. Released in the “Bugs and minor inconveniences with TSLRCM 1.8.5” thread.
October 4, 2017
Deleted multiple threads by ALPHA000102 on his requests.
and so on . . .
I’ve done other stuff after October 4th, of course. However, I think you might have the idea by now, right?
Throughout the year . . .
· Run spelling and grammar checks on your posts. (And you thought my blogs on grammar were just for show.)
Of note: “Nar Shaddaa” is misspelled the most. Count out how many “a’s” and “d’s” you see in those two words and try to remember it.
· Received numerous insults. (In addition to the above!)
· Applied infractions and bans where necessary - Possibly but not necessarily related to above. ???? I inquired with other staff members when applying infractions. (It's not done in a vacuum.)
· Worked on acquiring files for Ndix UR’s “Major Audio Classification” initiative. (You’ll have to ask him about that if you want more details.)
· Sent numerous birthday messages to Members. (I’m picky about doing this. If I don’t recognize the name because they’re new or because I don’t see that person post (anymore), I often don’t bother.)
· Provided input on various mods both in the threads or through Private Messages.
· Work on unannounced projects which I am unable to discuss at the moment.
· Other things of a personal nature but those involved know of what I speak.
· Forwarded message traffic to the appropriate staff member.
· Approved loads of mods. (However, I try to leave a majority of this to the Moderators.)
· Ensured mod up-loaders have acquired permissions for materials used in their mods if they didn’t make a part of it themselves.
· So. Many. Avatars. I really should cut down on that this year. (Nah.)
· So many questions about when M4-78 Enhancement Project will be back on the site. I don’t know and you should stop asking me about it. Ask Zbyl2. Don’t bother asking Hassat Hunter about as I think he’s signed off doing anything with the mod ages ago.
So . . . what did you do this year? Speaking of which . . .
What You Could Do For The Community in 2018 (and Beyond)
These suggestions are specifically directed at those that don’t mod.
When you make a request – whether it’s for some new or altered content or a bug fix – remember that the folks answering you aren’t being paid. They’re giving up their time and energy with no financial compensation. So please make sure to do the following:
1) Provide Relevant Information:
So . . . you have a bug. You want folks to help you. Then you must provide the information the modders need by utilizing the Read Me First threads for Knights of the Old Republic 1 or Knights of the Old Republic II [add links]. You’re most likely using K1R or TSLRCM but even if you’re not, providing the information specifically asked for those threads in vital before any can proceed. Plus . . . it’s in the site rules, ya know? {add links]
Have you made more than one request? You still have to provide the information in those threads. For each request you make, you have to update the information provided.
By the way, if you're mod configuration is so complicated that you have to have a Google Drive document in order to explain how you’ve put it together, you are the likely cause of your issue. That’s because you have too many mods and you have over-complicated your situation. (I wonder if I have someone specific in mind when I say this?)
2) Provide Feedback:
If you like what you see, let them know what you’ve liked in the modder’s presentation. If you didn’t like what you saw, provide constructive feedback. Modders aren’t mind readers and seeing as you’re already made a request, don’t waste the modder’s time by only providing a two word comment. Provide detail! Consider this your initial down payment for a request - to provide the information that a modder needs.
3) Utilize that Like button:
Let’s say you weren’t the original requester, but you liked what you saw. A simple way of letting of the mod author/s know he or she is on the right track (in your opinion) is to use that “Like” button.
4) Giving Thanks:
One of my personal pet peeves is when someone makes a request, is provided with exactly what they asked for, and never makes a comment in the thread again. (I could point out numerous examples of folks not doing this but let’s keep things mostly civil for this blog.) The very least you could do is thank the person that helped you. Assuming you’re better than a person doing “the very least”, you should state how the mod or fix helped you. Yes, that means providing feedback. And like I previously mentioned, hit that Like button!

This mod adds the head model of the Jedi Knight companion Kira Carsen from The Old Republic MMO, ported to TSL as a selectable player head for female characters. TOR uses the same base head mesh for Kira and Meetra Surik, so this was basically a two-for-one deal since the most difficult part is reskinning the face.
A few notes:
While aligned as closely as possible, the neckline probably won't match perfectly. Expect some visible gaps on body models that don't hide the join.
The TOR head models use separate textures for the face, eyes, and hair. In order to allow for DS transitions, these had to be merged together (and the UVs adjusted to match). The eyes are the big loser in this. They went from having their own dedicated 256x256 texture to being shrunk down to a corner where they could be squeezed in.
An additional consequence of the texture merge is no normal maps, due to the hair requiring alpha masking.
TOR heavily relies on tint mapping textures for variation - skin tone, hair colour, eye colour, etc. Unfortunately, while the tint colours are available in the material files, the specifics of their shaders are currently unknown to me, so the best I can do is experiment with various blend modes to approximate the look. It may require some further experimentation and kludging.
Not even having specularity, much less the advanced (by comparison) graphical features of TOR, expect textures to look pretty flat by comparison to the originals.
KOTOR has a maximum bone limit per mesh of 16. This creates a problem for TOR meshes, as adding the eyelids to the face bone array pushes that to 18. I had to drop 2 bones to make it work. I chose the two nose corner bones, as they seemed the least important. I don't know what effect this may have on various facial animations though.
The hair meshes are currently completely rigid. Possibly I may add a danglymesh version in a future update.
Dark Side transitions are included, but they are relatively mild. I'm not a big fan of the zombie look.
Installation
If you are using TSLRCM or the hybrid TSLRCM + M4-78 from the Steam Workshop, make sure to choose its Workshop folder as the installation location, not the main game folder.
Acknowledgements:
Original models and textures ported from The Old Republic MMO
Thanks to @bead-v for KOTORMax and MDLEdit
Thanks to @ndix UR for TGA2TPC
Thanks to zaramot on the Xentax forums for the TOR GR2 Max import script

Administrators are the online equivalent of the Police. The Police are supposed to prevent crime and punish people who have broken the law, same things apply here. The Administrator is to prevent online chaos and punish people who have broken the site rules. In this case, TSLRCM is a car that has driven at 100 in a 60 zone and the driver Zybl2 and his passenger Hassat Hunter are really famous Hollywood celebrities. In real life, the Police should give the person driving a ticket and possibly inflict a punishment related to the driver's license. If Sith Holocron didn't remove TSLRCM it would be the equivalent of the Police Officer betraying his duty as a Police Officer and pretending it didn't happen because Zybl2 and Hassat Hunter are famous celebrities. But because Sith Holocron is a good Administrator he has taken TSLRCM down like he is supposed to do regardless of his feelings towards it. (I apologize if that made no sense. Law enforcement when it comes to speeding is different in other countries so I reduced it to being very simple)
When M4-78 updates it will include new features which are currently being beta tested but TSLRCM has no real excuse as to why it's delayed is taking so long since all the new stuff going into 1.8.6 is the new credits and possibly a VO correction. One can assume Zybl2 and Hassat Hunter want to release both mods at the same time.

Hey guys!
So, I have been away from the community for a while, and I feel kinda guilty about it. But, at the risk of going a little bit into my personal life (and sorry there has not been any modding in it at all lately,) I would like to share some of what happened in probably what has been a world changing time for me.
First, a little bit of background information. Most of my family are very conservative, fanatical Christians, they are Jehovah's Witnesses. As a JW, you are not supposed to associate with non-JW's, and you completely shun former JW's. Since I was 14, I lived with my father, and was a devout JW. for about 5 years I was very active in the church (cult.)
So, as the story goes, you'll see why this has made my life extremely tumultuous of late. about one year ago, I met my best friend, also a witness, we would spend all day talking to each other, until the wee hours of the morning. We had so many things in common, goals, dreams, interests. we just had so much fun together. Eventually we fell in love. I remember how the feeling changed me, I couldn't focus, it was like I was drunk 24/7. all I could think about was us.
Normally, it's a good thing to fall in love, for us, it was a curse. Because, I loved him, and he loved me, and well, we were gay. This is something that was extremely forbidden. If we were found out, it would mean losing our family, friends, and our entire social system.
I remember being suicidal so many times growing up, because I tried to be someone I wasn't. I tried to be straight. But there is no decision involved. When I met him, my view of life changed, it was worth while. I had someone who knew me, the real me. And, instead of hating me, he loved me just the way I was. We had been in a relationship for about one month, when our friends started to suspect that we were more then good friends. My friend dated me to hide my real relationship, ( she knew what was really going on, and she offered to help.)
Eventually, my boyfriend proposed to me. It had been so hard, because when you meet someone who makes you so happy, so proud to be alive and you just want to share them with the world. I wanted to tell my parents. So, I told my step mom, I came out to her. she was horrified and cried for a long time. She had said she would let me tell my father, but she couldn't hold it in. My father cried, and cried, and cried. he eventually called the church elders, they tried to "pray away the gay." I was so stressed, because I wouldn't give my boyfriends name away, but they were threatening to excommunicate me ( remember what I said about how JW's treat ex-JW's...) I never gave his name up. But my step mother called all of my friends to see if they could figure out who it was, eventually they found him. And then, he left me, he told me that he didn't want to make god sad anymore, he felt guilty about loving me, he said he wanted to live forever in god's kingdom, (think of it like a JW heaven.)
I have never been so low in my life, the church was going to expel me, I was going to lose everything, my family, my friends. everything. and then i had lost the most important person I had ever met. I was hospitalized for two weeks for suicide. the next week after i was out of the hospital, they kicked me out. My parents packed my room and told me to find somewhere to sleep. I had no money, no job, no friends, nothing. my dad said I wasn't welcome in his house. my grandmother said she doesn't know who I am anymore. I wasn't allowed to say goodbye to my little brother. They are all so brainwashed in their cult. I lost my boyfriend to the indoctrination too.
Although it is tough, like everyone you know acting like you don't exist. I have never been so alone. I saw my dad the other day, and he didn't even look at me, he walked right by like i was a stranger. Eventually I reconnected with an exJW I knew from when I was young, and she took me in, and my boyfriend woke up from his indoctrination, we are back together now, and he should be moving in shortly. I started making new friends, I celebrated my first birthday, my first Halloween, my first pride, I have a lovely job. I now live on my own, and I am completely independent, I have a Huge interest in doing drag, and I love drag queens. Hopefully I can find the time to do some more modding now, but my life is still settling, so we'll see if I can manage it.
Anyways, I guess that's an extremely condensed version of the last 6 months of my life.

This mod addresses an issue with the vanilla Zeison Sha armour model for males (PMBMM). It appears something happened during its creation by Obsidian that results in the left hand being unable to reach far enough across the body to properly perform a two-handed grip during weapon animations. The model was also undersized compared to the other male models.
Fixes:
Scaled the model 102% to bring it in line with the height/size of other medium male models
Adjusted some hand and wrist skin weights to minimise bad deformation
Swapped to the PMBNM rig to alleviate left arm position/rotation issues
Known Issues:
It seems like swapping to the PMBNM rig may have traded one set of issues for another. There appear to be some deformation problems with the right hand that aren't present when using the original rig. I may swap to a third rig at some point to see if I can find a better solution.
The dual melee wielding animations still suffer from the vanilla bug of the off-hand clipping through the hilt. Download @JCarter426's Supermodel Fix for K2.
Installation:
Simply copy the model files across to your Override folder
Acknowledgements:
Thanks to @JCarter426 for pointing out the issue and testing the various fixes
Thanks to @bead-v for KOTORMax and MDLEdit

Throughout KOTOR 1 there are many models that are "lite" versions. Low-poly and low-res textures in order to help older computers. Since most computers can handle it fine now, this mod upgrades all possible lite models to full-res models/textures. (There are a few models that only have "lite" versions, and obviously nothing can be done).
Here's a list of all the models affected by this mod:
All Lite Commoner models (22 in total)
Lite Jawa
Lite Protocol Droid 01
Lite Protocol Droid 02 (No new model, but an upgraded texture)
Lite Rakata 01
Lite Republic Officer Male White
Lite Republic Officer Female White
Lite Selkath 01
Lite Sith Female Officer
Lite Sith Male Officer
Lite Sith Soldier
Lite Swoop Gang 01
Lite Twilek Female
Lite Twilek Male
Lite Wookie Male
Lite Wookie Female
Note: if you're planning to use the Sith Soldier Texture Restoration alternate installation, install this mod first.
Recommended mods:
JC's Dense Aliens for K1 - ports a couple of the full-res models from K2 into the Lite models of K1.
High Quality Spaceman - Improves the texture of the lite spaceman model
I give permission to anybody to do whatever they like with this mod, with or without credit (but I mean c'mon...cool internet points, right guys?)